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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
RTI
Diagnostic tests
Accent
Samuel T. Orton
2. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Affix
Kinesthetic
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Morphology
3. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Phonemic Awareness
V-e
Receptive language
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
4. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Prefix
Phonological Awareness
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Vowel
5. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Derivative
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Academic Achievement Tests
SBOE
6. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Grade equivalents
James Hinshelwood
VV
Standard deviation
7. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Diagnostic tests
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Semantics
Percentile/ percentile rank
8. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Stanine Scores
Great Vowel Shift
MSL
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
9. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Base Word
IMSLEC
Trigraph
Fluency
10. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
IMSLEC
Letter naming Chart
MSL
Great Vowel Shift
11. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
CTOPP
Old English
VC
12. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Auditory Learners
Morpheme
Phonology
VV
13. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Curriculum referenced tests
Multisensory
Cognition
Tilde
14. Final stable syllable
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15. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Vr
IMSLEC
Diagnostic tests
Mastery level
16. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Prefix
V >
Standard deviation
WIATII
17. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Towre
Stanine Scores
Syntax
Diagnostic tests
18. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
IDEA
Semantics
Phonics
Reliability
19. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
WIATII
Accent
James Hinshelwood
Chall's Stage 2
20. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Phonology
Syllable Instruction
VV
Matthew Effect
21. Open syllable
Open Syllable
VV
MSL
V >
22. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Norm-Referenced Test
V >
GORT
Vowel
23. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Stanine Scores
Anna Gillingham
Samuel T. Orton
Chall's Stage 1
24. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
VV
Visual Learners
Prefix
25. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
Closed Syllable
Latin layer of language
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
26. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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27. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Orthography
Percentile
Cognitive Assessment
Standard score
28. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Trigraph
Auditory Learners
Composite Score
Standardized test
29. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Derivative
Consonant Digraph
Linguistic Method
Cedilla
30. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Breve
Matthew Effect
Funding
Syllable Instruction
31. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Towre
Receptive language
Quadrigraph
32. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Academic Achievement Tests
Synthetic Instruction
Phonics approach
Syllable Instruction
33. Wide Range Achievement Test
Six basic types of syllables
WRAT
Grapheme
Joe Torgesen
34. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Receptive language
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Adolf Kusmaul
35. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Syllable
Chall's Stage 5
Multi-Sensory Approach
Ability
36. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Keith Stanovich
Derived Score
Vr
VC
37. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Modification
Frank Smith
Middle English
Trigraph
38. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Greek layer of language
Matthew Effect
Quadrigraph
Receptive language
39. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
IDEA
Simultaneous teaching
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Attention
40. Academic Language Therapy Association
ALTA
Digraph
Frank Smith
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
41. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Cognition
Anglo Saxon
Grapheme
Analytic
42. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Six basic types of syllables
Chall's Stage 5
V >
[-'le
43. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
V-e
Phoneme
Open Syllable
44. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
IDEA
Greek layer of language
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
45. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Simultaneous teaching
Greek layer of language
Mathew Effect
Phonemic/ decodable words
46. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
Reading Comprehension Support
James Hinshelwood
Age equivalent
Middle English
47. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Latin layer of language
Base Word
Breve
Profile
48. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Consonant
Attention
Samuel T. Orton
Cognition
49. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Six basic types of syllables
Funding
Progress Monitoring
Stanine Scores
50. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Criterion referenced tests
Linguistic Method
WIATII
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